CVE-2011-2689 Information

Description

The gfs2_fallocate function in fs/gfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc1 does not ensure that the size of a chunk allocation is a multiple of the block size which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by arranging for all resource groups to have too little free space.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6905d9e4dda6112f007e9090bca80507da158e63 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1065.html http://secunia.com/advisories/45193 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025776 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/13/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48677 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720861 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68557